St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-20

| tried hard not to, | could not help hear
| ing all the pretty things he had to say to
| her. | could not see them, but by and
by he told her that he had been sick and
was not yet himself again, and she
! grieving very much, sympathetic, tender
hearted little creature that she was,
came out to the Seaboard, filed me with
| her fathers choicest wine. and then
took me into the library. With smile
she handed me to him, saying, Here is
something that will be good for you and
| You may keep it,
Il was 10th to part from her, as you
may well imagine, but very proud to be
held in such high esteem. He thanked
her for me, and l still remember the
look he gave her, for | thought at the
| time. our separation will not be for
| long, He was several Years her sen
| iOr. nd'-handSome. did you say? No,
not handsome, even called homely by
| some, but there was a brightness and
strength of character in his face that
| surpasSes mere beauty, and as L looked
| into his bright blue eyes. so firm and yet
| so full of kindness, L felt at once that
we would be friends.
Il was all animation and desire for the
new life in store for me. Now thought
l the world is before me-
That night my new owner took me
| from his pocketan inspecting me under
| the gas light called me curious old fel-
low, whose like he had never before
seen. Then he spoke of my mistress,
calling her by name and said she was
| always thinking of others: but his hand
| trembled and my spirits sank within me
when with the words, i shall never need
you but will cherish you always in re-
membrance,' he put Inc away Oh the
top shelf of the bookcase, where through
a large glass door was complete master
| of my surroundings.
There was no sleep for me that night.
my brain was fired by this bittereSt of
! disappointments. For years | had had
for companions only the tenants and
GLOOM of the garnet and here was
I /. after one short year of happiness
and just, as ] believed, on the eve
of more complete life, condemned to
al existence bounded by a few dusty
tones. You think me merely bottle,
but had / not yearned to play my part
in the world Had my life not been one
continual hoping and striving, a living
starvation Again the words of Balzac
forced themselves upon me, that Only
God knows the suffering of soul eter
nally striving and eternally doomed to
disappointment ! resembled the tree
whose leaves turned yellow in the genial
sunshine Of spring.
But the night grew into the morning,
and Hope, she who stands ever ready to
nestle in the saddeSt heart, cOnsoled
me. Life wore for me changed aspect,
and | said: No. I will not despair;
from henceforth misery and | will part
company and after the master had
gone to his business | made the ac-
Quaintance of charming little volume
of poetry, in green and gold, and she, in
the sweetest of voices, told me his his
tory. He had been for years i'll prom
inent wholesale house in the city, his
honesty and ability winning the highest
confidence and approval OF the firm;
and so for half hour at a time she
would chatter away about him.
For more than two years | did not
move, and | think | must have turned
to acid had it not been for the books.
But they were capital company and
great times they had instructing me
when we We're alone, all trying to speak
at once. but ! restored order and was as
they limited, very apt pupil, in time
becoming quite well Informed, as be-
came bottle OF my high standing. But
the 'bluestOckings' grew tiresome at
times q have no desire to become
one myself and like Micawber
L was waiting for something to turn up
when something really did happen. He
was great student, and except the
evenings at Summit avenue, or an Occa-
sional opera or play, he would sit late
into the night at his books and papers.
i never took my eye off of him, in fact,
although he never paid me the least at
tentiOn. There was something very
fascinating about him; but my sight was
daily growing DINNER, and could not
have seen him much longer if. as | said
before, something had not happened.
lone night. just before the opening of
the first winter carnival. when all st.
Paul was excitement over the ice palace,
the paradeS and eXhilarating sports, my
two friends went out with their clubs
tobOgganing. L never quite knew how
it happened, but about midnight
voices in the pasSageway awOke
me and two young men car
ried in my master. There had been an
accident at the slide. and in his endeav
Ors to save my mistress from harm he
had been injured in the chest and left
hand. He was weak and very pale and
one of the young men took me from the
bookcase, tasted me to see if | were
good and pouring some of the wine into
q goblet handed me to him. | did my
very best to revive him.
Next morning, as he sat in his easy
chair by the fire, a sleigh drove up to
the door and two ladies came in. They
were my mistress and her mother. |
had not seen her in two years, to be
sure she had grown older, but she still
had those frank, winning manners, and
as she sat near him, her hand resting on
the table beside me, it was such pretty
hand, | thought her, in this case at
least. most successful physician.
Flowers. fruit and baskets of tempt
ing food were sent in every morning,
but he was better soon and too ener-
getic to stay in long, although think
he was never quite so strong again.
The doctor prescribed me for him regu-
larly, and | tell you | was glad TO leave
the old place for the more congenial at
mosphere of his coat pocket.
Wasn't it gay winter, and didn't l
enjoy the slides, the balls, operas and
theaterS! / went everywhere, for the
weather was biting cold and it was very
good for the circulation. But good
things do not last forever.
1t was late in the spring: master
seemed to care more for society now
than business. We were returning one
night from banquet, he and l, when
he fell on the pavement. How it
stunned me. | thought it would GER
tain!y be my death, my handsome glass
stopped fell out and my contents were
saturating his clothing, when police
man came up and shook my master by
the shoulder: but when he saw who it
was he helped him kindly to his feet;
here ! tainted away. When l revived
it was morning, he was sitting in his
chair, his face bruised and head
aching violently. l was on the
mantelpiece. Some one knocked
at the door and the little girls father
entered, kindly. silver-haired old gen.
tleman. They talked for long time
together in low tones, but l was too
weak to try and hear much, but when
the old gentleman rose to go, those eyes
that were so like the daughters were